Need help from a French speaker

[stevem]

Have been given a laptop from a Thai friend to fix, believe it or not this bloody thing has a french version of XP on it, but not for long. But the thing that has gotten me stumped is the keyboard is also bloody french. Now which key is the DELETE key!!!!!

[Tyfon]

Is there a key marked "suppr."?

K.

[stevem]

Originally Posted by Tyfon

Is there a key marked "suppr."?

K.

That did the trick, thanks heaps

[Coolhand]

Originally Posted by stevem

Have been given a laptop from a Thai friend to fix, believe it or not this bloody thing has a french version of XP on it, but not for long. But the thing that has gotten me stumped is the keyboard is also bloody french. Now which key is the DELETE key!!!!!

Could be worse it could be Finnish, monsieur Chirac

[Tyfon]

Originally Posted by Coolhand

Could be worse it could be Finnish, monsieur Chirac

I as at a conference once where a Mac Luser was having difficulty hooking up to the (then new-fangled) LCD projector. I recognised the problem and dashed to the front to change the screen resoultion but came to a grinding halt when I found the OS was in Japanese kanji Had to run through the menu options in my head and count off which one I wanted

K.

[Austin42]

Originally Posted by stevem

Have been given a laptop from a Thai friend to fix, believe it or not this bloody thing has a french version of XP on it, but not for long. But the thing that has gotten me stumped is the keyboard is also bloody french. Now which key is the DELETE key!!!!!

Hi Stevem,

I am currently working in Germany (from the U.S.) and have to translate the local websites frequently. I use www.freetranslation.com which handles
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Norwegian to English and back.

[Tyfon]

Originally Posted by Austin42

Hi Stevem,

I am currently working in Germany (from the U.S.) and have to translate the local websites frequently. I use www.freetranslation.com which handles
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Norwegian to English and back.

Wouldn't have helped here, French for 'delete' is 'delete', dunno why they have to use 'suppr.', I think 'del.' is used for what we call backspace ('<-').

[slimbag]

Originally Posted by Tyfon

Wouldn't have helped here, French for 'delete' is 'delete', dunno why they have to use 'suppr.', I think 'del.' is used for what we call backspace ('<-').

supr for supprimer which means delete, the french always need to do it their own way, everyone has pal in europe but they have secam ..

[Nicke]

I am not sure but I think Scandinavian keyboards use DEL or delete, and not a Swedish word.

I use a Thai keyboard with support for English, Swedish and Thai installed in windows. Just use ALT-SHIFT to switch language.

Originally Posted by Coolhand

Could be worse it could be Finnish, monsieur Chirac